July 22, 2010

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

Stephen Strasburg has now set a record for most consecutive starts at the beginning of a career, where K>IP for every start (9).
The previous record holder was also a young fastballer named Herb Score.

On the tune of NoMich, I hate MLB blackouts. Living in Iowa takes out the White Sox, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals, and Brewers. So on any given night, can't watch almost half the games being played. It's probably worse somewhere up where there are more teams close together, but it still quite annoys me.